Some Michigan health care consumers skeptical they can get canceled policies back now

7:27 PM,
Nov. 15, 2013

Bowing to pressure, President Barack Obama intends to permit continued sale of individual insurance plans that have been canceled because they failed to meet coverage standards under the health care law, officials said Thursday.

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Through the long debate over health care reform and its implementation, Kathleen Forster of Grosse Pointe believed what the Democrats were saying in Washington: that she could keep her insurance if she wanted to.

And she wanted to.

But in September, the letter came saying the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan policy the 64-year-old and her husband had would be canceled at year's end, though they could sign up for a similar policy - one for which the deductible shot up from $1,000 a year to $12,000. ...